Case Studies
Panametrics Ultrasonic Flowmeter used to Replace Damaged Electromagnetic Flowmeter
RS Hydro were contacted by an airport for a clamp on flowmeter to measure sewage as their current electromagnetic flowmeter was getting inconsistent readings and needed ...
Supply and Installation of Instrumentation for MCERTS Inlet Waste Water Treatment Monitoring
RS Hydro was asked to provide a solution for the MCERTS certified flow monitoring of a large Inlet to a waste water treatment site in Northampton. The existing flow meas...
Real-Time Faecal Coliform Water Quality Monitoring in Chicago, USA
Introduction Total coliforms, E.coli or faecal coliforms are probably the most important water quality parameters there are for recreational water bodies such as riv...
Real-Time Bathing Water Quality Monitoring for Total Coliforms
RS Hydro were contacted to specify and commission a Proteus real-time water quality monitoring system to monitor BOD, COD & Total Coliforms at a marine leisure centre. Th...
District Energy Efficiency by Flow Metering
Energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important as energy costs increase and carbon footprints considered, this is true across all organisations in both public a...
Is it Curtains for the BOD5 test?
The Proteus highlights the inaccuracy of this 150-year inherently inaccurate technique… Summary Well the answer is no (for now) as the BOD5 assay is enshrined in global...
A Study to Understand how Carbon is Cycling through Peatland Ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia
A university contacted RS Hydro to purchase instrumentation for a project aiming to understand how carbon is cycling through peatland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia. I...
Real-time E. coli monitoring in a large river system using the Proteus
Download PDF version here. Summary RS Hydro were commissioned by a UK government agency to undertake a trial of the Proteus for E. coli measurement. The key goal of th...
Real-time, low-maintenance DOC monitoring using the Proteus
Proteus Instruments have launched the new Proteus range of sensors that enable the accurate real-time measurement of parameters that were previously difficult measure at ...
Supply and installation of instrumentation for water quality, flow and rainfall in the Highlands of Scotland
RS Hydro was asked to tender for the supply and installation of monitor instrumentation for water quality, flow and rainfall within a number of water bodies in the Highl...
Warehouse conversion to smaller business units water sub-metering project
RS Hydro were contacted by a firm of architects to provide billing information for individual business units as part of a major warehouse conversion. The list of require...
Proteus BOD - a breakthrough in providing real-time, low-maintenance BOD
K.Khamis & R. Stevens Proteus Instruments have launched what will be hailed as a global revolution in measuring Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) with the new Proteus BOD...
Steam Flow Surveys in Côte d'Voire
A french company contacted our office in Paris to undertake steam surveys at two Cocoa Production Facilities at Abidjan and San Pedro in Côte d'Ivoire. 5 boilers were...
Steam Turbine Efficiency Testing at Nuclear Facility
A Swedish nuclear power station contracted RS Hydro to install multiple PT878 clamp on flow meters as part of a testing regime for a new impeller design. Equipment Used ...
High resolution monitoring of dissolved organic matter and nutrient fluxes for the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR)
Background The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR)was founded in November 2013 and aims to become an internationally leading Institute. With £15M investmen...
The Supply and Installation of a Flood Warning System for City of London
RS Hydro were awarded the contract to supply install and maintain a network of water level monitoring, automatic rain gauge stations and a weather station for...
Tryptophan-like fluorescence (TLF) to measure Biological Oxygen Demand & organic pollution
Fluorescence has long been used to measure a range of water quality parameters, from chlorophyll and algae to hydrocarbons and optical brightening agents. Recent advanc...
Wimbleball Leakage Reduction Programme & Pollution Alarm System
Background Wimbleball Dam is located in the county of Somerset and is jointly owned by South West Water Ltd and Wessex Water Ltd and was commissioned in 1979. Si...
Environmental Monitoring & Control System for North Wyke Research Platform
RS Hydro install 15 Water Quality Monitoring Kiosks, Soil Moisture Stations and Telemetry System ...
Accurate Water Quality Monitoring Under Harsh Environmental Conditions
RS Hydro was contacted by Bristol University with a challenge. They wanted to know if it was possible to monitor water quality of melt water from the bed of a...
River Monitoring for Renewable Energy Source
Located along the Scottish border a 48 strong wind turbine development is under construction. To ensure minimal disturbance to the natural surroundings and to...
Understanding the Effects of Moorland Restoration on Water Quality and Quantity
A project partnership funded by South West Water involving the University of Exeter, Exmoor and Dartmoor National Parks, The Environment Agency, Natural England and En...
CEMEX Small Dole - Automation of Leachate Extraction System
The installation of an automated and remotely controlled leachate well monitoring system on a landfill site in East Sussex. The brief is to allow preferenti...
Multilevel Groundwater Sampling for Former Manufacturing Site
GEL, working with URS were given the task of developing a cost effective means to isolate and reliably sample groundwater quality and head data from several d...
Discharge Effluent Monitoring Under MCERTS
The Model 4700 Automatic Refrigerated Sampler is used to sample discharge effluent from a dairy manufacturer to give a comprehensive and reliable source of wa...
Nationwide Quarry Monitoring Solution to Meet New EPR/MCERTS Regulations
RS Hydro have secured a contract to supply, install and monitor 250+ flow monitoring installations across the UK for CEMEX, a leading supplier of cement, read...
Water Usage at an Oil Refinery
An oil refinery in Wales contacted RS Hydro to see if it was possible to monitor water usage across the refinery on a temporary basis to try and determine whe...
Flow Data Provides Evidence for a Prosecution
The owners of a ship based in the Baltic Sea port of Odessa in The Ukraine, suspected that a shipping company was embezzling fuel from the ship. RS Hydro were...
Future Proofing Your Flow Measurement Techniques
When RS Hydro was approached by a well established food manufacturer with an application which involved monitoring effluent, RS Hydro had to decide on a monitor...
Flare Gas Flow Measurement Survey Using CTF878
Clamp on flow technology and low pressure gas. You would be wrong in thinking that this is impossible. Quite the reverse. Universally there is only flow meter t...
Continuous Water Monitoring System
A chocolate factory within the UK needed to conform to MCERTS by installing a continuous water monitoring system to measure the flow of three outfalls feeding...
New Non-Invasive Steam Flow Meter & Monitoring Service
When process engineers and plant managers need to measure steam flow rates, serious consideration and expenditure was always required due to the issues and cost...
Low Flow Conditions - Low Profile Area Velocity Monitoring
When looking at the monitoring of flows in many piped and open channel situations the issue has always been the monitoring of flows at low levels. RS Hydro were...
Alternative Flow Monitoring Solutions
One of RS Hydro's existing clients contacted RS Hydro to establish whether it would be possible to monitor the flow in two of Britain's largest clean water supp...
Flow and Heat Metering Solutions
A well known University requires a monitoring system to be designed, installed and calibrated. Equipment Used The AquaTrans AT868 Panametrics Liquid Flow Ultra...
Flowview.net - Remote Monitoring
FlowView Telemetry Logger is one of the most versatile data loggers for any application where telephone lines are more costly or prohibitive. Equipment Used The...
Monitoring Conditions for the Freshwater Pearl Mussel
The freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera is now becoming an endangered species due to a number of factors including siltation, acidification, pearl ...
Ultrasonic Clamp-On Meter to Undertake Trunk Mains Verification
A large water company in the UK had a long series of large trunk mains with permanent electromagnetic flow meters already in place. In order to maintain accur...
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Sustainable Urban Development Scheme (SUDS)
RS Hydro has recently installed a network of open channel flow meters to monitor the runoff patterns associated with innovative methods of flow attenuation in...
Can Mexican Cave Fish Tell the Time?
An international team of scientists, using equipment supplied by RS Hydro, conduct an experiment to discover if fish in a Mexican cave have a â??biological c...
Electromagnetic Flow Monitoring Network for Metals and Mining Company
A large metals and mining company in the south of England needed to monitor its water usage and waste output. Although there were several locations with many...
Clamp-On Gas Meters for Dewatering in Spain and Egypt
RS Hydro was asked by a company in Spain to find a permanent meter to measure the pressure of compressed air being pumped through a pipe. Equipment...
Large Diameter Pipe Flow Measurement: 2000mm Pipeline
2000mm in diameter, flow up to 22,000 litres a second, 7.0m/sec and producing 3 MegaWatts of electricity â?? that was the challenge for one of RS Hydroâ??...